Improved straw-carrier for thrashing-machines



0. RUSSELL & W. K. MILLER.

STRAW CARRIER FOR. THRESHING MACHINES.

Patented May 17, 1 870.

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CLEMENT RUSSELL AND WILLIAM K. MILLER, MASSILLON. OHIO Letters PatentNo. 103.086.datezl May 17 1870.

IMPRO VE D STRAW-CARRIBR I'OR 'I'HRASH ING-MACHINBS.

The Schedule refused to in these Letters Patent and making parrot thesame To all whom it mayconcem:

Be it known that we, CLEMENT RUSSELL and WILLIAM K. MILLER, ofMassillon, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Straw-Carriers for 'Iluashing'and Grain-Separating Machines; and w do hereby declare thetbllowing tobe afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being badto the accompauying drawings. making a part of this specification, inwhich-- Figure 1 represents a top plan of the straw-car ner.

Figure 2 represents a vertical through'the same.

Figure 3 represents, on an enlarged scale and detached from, thecarrier, the shaker-head, for shaking the belt that carries the straw.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur, refer to like partsofthe apparatus in all of the figures.

Our invention relates to the combination of ashaker longitudinal sectionwith an endless carrier supported on strips or ribs,

and having scraping-slats thereon for separatingthe grain from thestraw, and returning the former to thccleaning operation.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use our invention, wewill proceed to describe thesame with reference to the drawings.

A represents the carrier-frame, at each'end of which are arrangedrollers or pulleys 13, over and around which the belts or endless handsa a. to which the slats b b b are attached, pass.

One set of the rollers or pulleys may be driven by any first movingpower, and through a drivingbelt passing therefrom around apulley,0,,and the projectiug end of said pulley-shaft D. The otherrollers or pulleysmovc by friction.

0n the bottom of the carrier-flame there are strips of ribs i, whichsupport the endless carrier, and raise i'tslightly above said'bottomboard.

At intervals along, on the endless carrier, there are slats d, whichproject further from the belts'or bands than the slats I) do, and whichslats (I, when on the under side of the carrier and moving over thebottom 0, act as scrapers for drawing back the grain that is shaken outof the straw, and delivering it;

where it can be subjected to a cleaning operation.

On the shaft 1) there is a puIley,--1fl, over-and around which, and overand arounda pulley, F, on the shaft G, misses an endless belt, H, whichgives motion to said shaii: G.

On this shaft G, audimderneath each of the main :arrier-belts, arearranged heaters, for striking, raisug, and'shaking the belt-or carrier,so as tosliake out what grain may be in the straw carried by it.

These shakers are made of a east-iron head, if, having two journals, gg, east or otherwise fastened to it, and a boss or hub, 70, which slipsonto the shaft G, and keyed'thereto. g

()n the journals 9 g are placed rollers i, of hard wood, or othersuitable material, which rollers, as their shaft revolves, strikeagainst the endless carrier, and shake out what grain remains in thestraw carried off by it.

Having thus fully described-our invention,

What we claim therein as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent,is-

In combination .with an endless carrier, to which a shake motion isimparted by the rollers i i, the two sets of strips 1: (Z, and the sideguides t t, onand'between which guides the said strips 1) (1respectively pass, for the. purpose of carrying forward, the straw, andscreening and (hawiughack the grain, in the manner described andrepresented.

' i ULEMENT RUSSELL.

W. K. MILLER.

Witnesses: e WM. MCKENLEY, J r.,

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